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== ''Τό ἧττον ἄπορον διά τοῦ μείζονος ἀπόρου'' ==

== ''Τό ἧττον ἄπορον διά τοῦ μείζονος ἀπόρου'' ==

''Τὸ ἧττον ἄπορον διὰ τοῦ μείζονος ἀπόρου'' ([[Ancient Greek]] for "the less doubdfull by the more doubtfull") found in [[Sextus Empiricus]], Adversus Mathematicos, III, i, 34.

''Τὸ ἧττον ἄπορον διὰ τοῦ μείζονος ἀπόρου'' ([[Ancient Greek]] for ''"the less doubdfull by the more doubtfull"'') found in [[Sextus Empiricus]] (''Against the Physicists. Against the ethicists'', I, 34) when he comments on [[Democritus|Democritus's]] views concerning the conception of [[God]]. In the translation of the original text in English by [[Robert Gregg Bury|R. G. Bury]], the word "''ἄπορον"'' is translated as ''"doubtfull"'' is utmost misleading, as one can find that the word '''ἄπορος''' • (áporos) ''<abbr>m</abbr> or <abbr>f</abbr>'' (''neuter'' '''ἄπορον''') from ἀ- (''a-'', “not”) +‎ πόρος (''póros'', “passage”) simply means:

# without passage, impassable, having no way through

# hard, difficult

# (''of people'') hard to deal with, unmanageable

# not knowing what to do, at a loss

# poor, needy

and not ''"[[Doubt|doubtfull]]"'' .

One can find the refutation ,that the [[Pyrrhonism|Pyrrhonian]] [[Skepticism|sceptic]] doesn't doubt, at Henrik Langerlund's book Skepticism in Philosophy, A Comprehensive, Historical Introduction (2020).

''"As [[Benson Mates]] points out in the introduction to his translation of the Outlines, this might seem like too fine a point, but it is extremely important for a proper understanding of [[Sextus Empiricus|Sextus’]] version of skepticism. ‘Doubt’ implies an understanding of what it is you are doubting. To use Mates’s example, I cannot doubt that 8 is a prime number unless I already know what a prime number is, but I can be at a loss without having to understand or even know anything. This distinction is crucial for [[Sextus Empiricus|Sextus]]. I can be at a loss without giving any assertion to something being the case, whereas ‘doubt’ cannot be used in this way."''

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